Senior Technical Analyst, Wayfair
Castlegate Forwarding Analytics
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4 days a week in office
A global online homeware marketplace
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A global online homeware marketplace
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
4 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone, anywhere create their feeling of home.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in Math/Statistics, Computer Science, or another quantitative field, highly preferred
- 2+ years of industry experience in an analytics role preferably in e-commerce, cloud services, or large-scale data environment
- Advanced proficiency in SQL or Google BigQuery, Python, and Looker or other comparable visualization tools for data extraction, cleaning, analysis, and visualization
- Familiarity with data wrangling concepts, including the ability to preprocess and clean data effectively
- Experience with web scraping and gathering data using third party APIs
- Illustrate problem-solving and analytical skills, with a focus on developing automated solutions for efficiency and scalability or driving business insights
- Demonstrate an eagerness to learn the nuances of supply chain management from an analytics lens
- Showcase ability to communicate and present complex data insights in a clear and concise manner
What the job involves
- The CastleGate Forwarding team is set on the path to becoming a top-tier forwarder in the industry. Capitalizing on Wayfair's extensive e-commerce business and supplier network, CastleGate Forwarding is implementing a forward-thinking strategy to activate remarkable year-over-year growth
- Central to this opportunity is our proprietary operating system, NaviOS, which has been custom-built to supercharge our expanding freight forwarding business. NaviOS represents the future platform, serving as the comprehensive digital source of truth for real-world tracking
- As a key team member, you will lead efforts to manage this platform and extract valuable insights from its data
- Additionally, you will be tasked with constructing new datasets, deriving fresh insights, and developing improved methodologies to forecast the trajectory of our business and the industry as a whole
- Employ advanced analytical techniques to conduct in-depth analyses and extract meaningful insights from complex datasets
- Generate data-driven, strategic insights, craft compelling visualizations and communicate findings with a clear point of view
- Optimize SQL queries for efficient data retrieval and analysis
- Collaborate with stakeholders and leadership to ensure that data-driven insights are integrated into product strategy
- Develop and maintain scalable self-service tools, datasets, and dashboards that align with departmental goals
- Partner with Product, Engineering, and Business teams to foster effective data sharing and adopt best practices across the organization
- Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies to continuously enhance analytics capabilities
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Wayfair emerged in the early era of eCommerce with a mission to revolutionize online shopping, offering customers a convenient platform to purchase goods. Today, it stands as one of the foremost global players in the online furniture delivery industry, boasting an impressive inventory of over 33 million products.
Renowned for its extensive product range and comprehensive service offerings, Wayfair distinguishes itself by providing an end-to-end customer experience, from browsing to doorstep delivery. Despite its prominence, the company faces profitability challenges attributed largely to expansion expenses. Nonetheless, its solid presence in the competitive online homeware sector solidifies its position as a key contender.
With ambitious global expansion plans, Wayfair remains committed to maintaining its leadership in the industry. As it aspires to become the ultimate destination for all home needs, its more recent ventures into physical retail represent significant strides toward this overarching goal.
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company values
- Relentless Customer Focus: Delivering an exceptional customer experience drives everything we do. We invest in understanding our customers and partners. We are all in customer service
- Deliver Rsults With Agility: We prioritize work that drives long-term value. We execute with urgency, learn from failure, and nimbly pivot. The outcomes of our efforts are impactful, measurable results
- Use Good Judgement: We are bold and confident, never reckless. We make reasoned, calculated decisions based on data, critical thinking, and pattern recognition
- Build the Best Team: We lead by setting the bar high, articulating clear goals, and diving deep. We hire, develop, and leverage only the best. Our leaders continually reevaluate and strengthen their teams and do not shy away from hard decisions. We expect and demonstrate excellence
- Collaborate Effectively: We invest in cross-functional global partnerships that maximize impact and minimize duplication. We prize collaboration in all interactions – with our teammates, stakeholders, and suppliers. We disagree, align, and commit. Effectiveness and efficiency in collaboration are required.
- Respect Others: We earn and show respect, treating our teammates and partners with empathy and inclusion. We presume good intent while prioritizing impact. We balance confidence and candor with humility and kindness.
- Be an Owner: We are Wayfair first. We act on what’s best for the company, ahead of team or individual goals. We spend every dollar as if it is our own. We take pride in Wayfair’s success while planning the next win. We always think long-term
- Innovate & Improve: We are not limited by precedent. We boldly challenge the norm. We continually identify opportunities to innovate, improve, and simplify. We value incremental improvements, but we also look for game-changing breakthroughs.
- Adapt & Grow: We value adaptability and self-reflection. We find opportunity in every change, experience, and mistake. We are committed to continuous self-improvement.
Company HQ
Prudential / St. Botolph, Boston, MA
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Founders
Niraj Shah
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied Engineering at Cornell University before co-founding Spinners, a Boston-based IT services company. Previously acted as Entrepreneur in Residence for Greylock and has served as CEO of Wayfair since co-founding the company in 2002.
Steven Conine
(Co-Founder)Co-founded Spinners before working for Operations at iXL. Conine also co-founded Pillar VC in 2016.
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